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	Leonard Strear and Albert Dinner 6July2011 Yiddish Book Center - Yiddish Book Center (Allie) Leonard Strear and Albert “Booney” Dinner, cousins, were interviewed in Denver, Colorado on July 6, 2011. Albert was born and raised in Greeley, Colorado, and Leonard was born in Detroit and grew up in Denver. The two cousins talk about their shared family history, their childhoods in Colorado, and their lives as Jewish farmers there. Growing up, Leonard spent much of his time working for his father, a poultry farmer... Keywords: Yiddish Book Center; National Yiddish Book Center; Wexler Oral History Project; nybc; ybc; Yiddish; Jewish culture Downloads: 27
	Robert Epstein 5April2011 Yiddish Book Center - Yiddish Book Center (Allie) Robert Epstein was interviewed by Christa Whitney on April 5, 2011 at the Yiddish Book Center. Robert begins his interview with a brief overview of his family’s settlement in the United States. Robert’s parents both came from Poland, but did not meet until they were settled in New York City on the Lower East Side. As Robert recalls his family’s history he weaves in and out of stories of his grandparent’s work in the United States, the family members that stayed in Europe and perished in ... Keywords: Yiddish Book Center; National Yiddish Book Center; Wexler Oral History Project; nybc; ybc; Yiddish; Jewish culture Downloads: 44
	Yechiel Schachner 2April2011 Yiddish Book Center - Yiddish Book Center (Allie) Yechiel Schachner was interviewed by Christa Whitney on April 2, 2011 in New York. Yechiel Schachner’s family lived in Odessa before his mother immigrated to the United States in 1920 and his father in 1922. Yechiel begins his interview describing his childhood growing up in Boro Park in Brooklyn, New York. Yechiel describes his parents’ commitment to the Yiddish world and their apolitical household... Keywords: Yiddish Book Center; National Yiddish Book Center; Wexler Oral History Project; nybc; ybc; Yiddish; Jewish culture Downloads: 23
	Jim Hoberman 26June2011 Yiddish Book Center - Yiddish Book Center (Allie) Jim Hoberman was interviewed by Emma Morgenstein on June 26, 2011 at the Yiddish Book Center. Jim Hoberman’s interview begins with an overview of his family’s history which centers mostly around New York city where he, his parents, and his maternal grandparents were born and raised. Jim’s paternal grandparents were from southern Ukraine, and his maternal great grandparents originated from Slovakia and Germany... Keywords: Yiddish Book Center; National Yiddish Book Center; Wexler Oral History Project; nybc; ybc; Yiddish; Jewish culture Downloads: 42
	Andrei Malaev-Babel 16May2011 Yiddish Book Center - Yiddish Book Center (Allie) Andrei Malaev-Babel was interviewed by David Schlitt on May 16, 2011 at the Yiddish Book Center. Andrei begins his interview describing his childhood in Moscow, Russia as a member of a well-educated family that had great interest in the arts. When Andrei was born, his family moved to the suburbs of Moscow to a three-bedroom apartment in a five-story building. Andrei went to an English-language-focused school that happened to be next to the music school; Andrei’s grandmother would walk him to a... Keywords: Yiddish Book Center; National Yiddish Book Center; Wexler Oral History Project; nybc; ybc; Yiddish; Jewish culture Downloads: 50
	Irv Zuckerman 6June2011 Yiddish Book Center - Yiddish Book Center (Allie) Irv Zuckerman was interviewed by David Schlitt on June 6, 2011 at the Yiddish Book Center. Irv Zuckerman’s interview starts with a riveting story about how his name became Irving in the first grade. The vivacity with which Irv begins his interview stays consistent as Irv provides incredible details during each story he shares. The first portion of the interview focuses on Irv’s life growing up as the child of a Russian emigrant mother and a Polish emigrant father in the Bronx in Brooklyn, Ne... Keywords: Yiddish Book Center; National Yiddish Book Center; Wexler Oral History Project; nybc; ybc; Yiddish; Jewish culture; Irv Zuckerman Downloads: 29
	Miriam Isaacs 26December2010 Yiddish Book Center - Yiddish Book Center (Christa) Miriam Isaacs was interviewed at Klezkamp by Pauline Katz on December 26th, 2010. Miriam is the daughter of Holocaust survivors from Galicia and grew up in a traditional Jewish home in Montreal and later Crown Heights. She describes her childhood in Montreal where she went to school in English, spoke Yiddish at home and French on the street. In New York she lived in Crown Heights, a neighborhood dominated by Holocaust survivors and their children but her family was not a member of the Chabad-Lub... Keywords: Miriam Isaacs; KlezKamp; Sutzkever; Yiddish Book Center; National Yiddish Book Center; Wexler Oral History Project; nybc; ybc; Yiddish; Jewish culture Downloads: 69
	Martha Ackelsberg 13September2011 Yiddish Book Center - Yiddish Book Center (Allie) Martha Ackelberg’s family history pours out of her in meticulous detail as she explains that her maternal grandmother was born in the United States, her maternal grandfather was from Galicia, and her paternal grandfather was from the Ukraine. She explains how Daniel Mendelsohn’s book “The Lost” prompted the emergence of her family’s history, leaving her able to share what she does at the start of the interview... Keywords: Yiddish Book Center; National Yiddish Book Center; Wexler Oral History Project; nybc; ybc; Yiddish; Jewish culture; feminist; feminism; Amherst; Northampton; MA; Massachusetts; Camp Ramah Downloads: 38
	Michael Wex 29December2012 Yiddish Book Center - Yiddish Book Center (Christa) Michael Wex was interviewed by Pauline Katz at KlezKamp in the Catskills on December 29, 2010. Michael Wex’s interview takes us through a beautifully detailed and often funny telling of his life growing up in Canada, his time spent studying medieval literature, and how his interests eventually led him to write “Born to Kvetch.” The interview begins with Michael’s detailed family history that he dates back to his grandfather’s grandfather, a famous Hasidic rebbe in Poland... Keywords: Michael Wex; KlezKamp; Born to Kvetch; Yiddish Book Center; National Yiddish Book Center; Wexler Oral History Project; nybc; ybc; Yiddish; Jewish culture Downloads: 49
	Bella Bryks-Klein 25July2011 Yiddish Book Center - Yiddish Book Center (Allie) Bella Bryks-Klein, daughter of the Yiddish writer Rachmil Bryks, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on July 25, 2011 at the Yiddish Book Center. Learn more about Rachmil Bryks and view highlights from Bella's interview about him at: http://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/bella-bryks-klein-her-father-yiddish-writer-rachmil-bryks To learn more about the Wexler Oral History Project, visit: www.yiddishbookcenter.org/tell-your-story Keywords: Yiddish Book Center; National Yiddish Book Center; Wexler Oral History Project; nybc; ybc; Yiddish; Jewish culture; Bella Bryks-Klein; Rachmil Bryks Downloads: 60
	Paula Teitelbaum 28December2010 Yiddish Book Center - Yiddish Book Center (Christa) Paula Teitelbaum was interviewed by Pauline Katz on December 28th, 2010 in the Catskill Mountains of New York. Paula was born in Poland after World War 2 to parents who had fled to the USSR during the Nazi invasion. She attended a Jewish school that taught Yiddish as a foreign language and performed in Yiddish language plays that retold the history of the USSR. She also attended lectures in Yiddish with her father and Jewish summer camps... Keywords: Yiddish Book Center; National Yiddish Book Center; Wexler Oral History Project; nybc; ybc; Yiddish; Jewish culture; Yiddishist; Yiddishism; KlezKamp; Bambridge Avenue; Paula Teitelbaum Downloads: 102
	Lola Paley-Byron 17Aug2011 Yiddish Book Center - Yiddish Book Center (Benno) Lola Paley-Byron was a social worker who was interviewed at the Yiddish Book Center on August 17, 2011. The first half of Lola’s interview focuses on her Polish heritage, how she and her family survived World War II, and the experience of assimilating into American life. Lola describes her parent’s life before they left Warsaw for Bialystok—the trip where her parents were married. Once in Russian territory, Lola’s parents and their family were arrested and sent to Siberia... Keywords: Yiddish Book Center; National Yiddish Book Center; Wexler Oral History Project; nybc; ybc; Yiddish; Jewish culture; Childhood; Family history; stories about ancestors; Yiddish language; Yiddish learning; Immigration; Migration; Holocaust; World War Two; Eastern Europe; Newspapers; Lola Paley-Byron; Warsaw Downloads: 27
	Laurie Weinberg 12Aug2011 Yiddish Book Center - Yiddish Book Center (Benno) Laurie Weinberg was interviewed on August 12, 2011 at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, MA. To learn more about the Wexler Oral History Project, visit: http://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/tell-your-story Keywords: Yiddish Book Center; National Yiddish Book Center; Wexler Oral History Project; nybc; ybc; Yiddish; Jewish culture; Jewish Identity; Childhood; Immigration; Migration; Jewish holidays; Israel; United States; Laurie Weinberg; military Downloads: 69
	Kate Potter 20January2011 Yiddish Book Center - Yiddish Book Center (Allie) Kate Potter was interviewed by Pauline Katz on January 20, 2011 at the Yiddish Book Center. Kate’s interview focuses on her time at the Yiddish Book Center for the January term class. Originally from Southern California, Kate now lives in Massachusetts and studies English literature at Mount Holyoke. As a five-college student, Kate became interested in the Yiddish Book Center Jan-term class because of her interest in museum work... Keywords: Kate Potter; Books; Yiddish learning; Literature; Theater; Yiddish Book Center; Kibbutz; Yiddish language; Eastern Europe; Western Europe; 1890s; periodicals; Yiddish Book Center; National Yiddish Book Center; Wexler Oral History Project; nybc; ybc; Yiddish; Jewish culture Downloads: 21
	Tania Horn 05Aug2011 Yiddish Book Center - Yiddish Book Center (Benno) Tania Horn was interviewed on August 5, 2011 at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, MA. To learn more about the Wexler Oral History Project, visit: http://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/tell-your-story Keywords: Yiddish Book Center; National Yiddish Book Center; Wexler Oral History Project; nybc; ybc; Yiddish; Jewish culture; Childhood; Immigration; Migration; Holocaust; World War Two; Eastern Europe; Soviet Union; Canada; Israel; Tania Horn Downloads: 12
	Velvel Pasternak 15Aug2011 Yiddish Book Center - Yiddish Book Center (Benno) Velvel Pasternak was interviewed on August 15, 2011 at his home in New York. To learn more about the Wexler Oral History Project, visit: http://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/tell-your-story Keywords: Yiddish Book Center; National Yiddish Book Center; Wexler Oral History Project; nybc; ybc; Yiddish; Jewish culture; Yiddish language; Music; song; singing; Press; Career and Professional Life; Jewish professions; Religion and ritual; United States; Velvel Pasternak; sheet music; recrdings Downloads: 104
	Robert Wahler 07Aug2011 Yiddish Book Center - Yiddish Book Center (Benno) Robert Wahler was interviewed by Pauline Katz on August 7, 2011 at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, MA. Robert Wahler begins his interview by going over his family history. Beginning with his maternal relatives, Robert narrates how his great-grandfather came to the United States in the late 1800s from Russia. His maternal great-grandparents settled in Boston with their six children. Robert’s paternal grandfather was very wealthy Czech man... Keywords: Yiddish Book Center; National Yiddish Book Center; Wexler Oral History Project; nybc; ybc; Yiddish; Jewish culture; Childhood; Family history; stories about ancestors; Jewish Identity; Career and Professional Life; Jewish holidays; United States; Jewish community; Robert Waher; AZA Downloads: 26
	Dana Szeflan-Bell 04Aug2011 Yiddish Book Center - Yiddish Book Center (Benno) Dana Szeflan-Bell was interviewed on August 4, 2011 at the Yiddish Book Center inAmherst, MA. To learn more about the Wexler Oral History Project, visit: http://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/tell-your-story Keywords: Yiddish Book Center; National Yiddish Book Center; Wexler Oral History Project; nybc; ybc; Yiddish; Jewish culture; Childhood; Jewish Identity; Yiddish language; Immigration; Migration; song; singing; Holocaust; World War Two; Soviet Union; Eastern Europe; Dana Szeflan-Bell Downloads: 118
	Eli Kwartler 4April2012 Yiddish Book Center - Yiddish Book Center (Yoshi) Eli Kwartler was interviewed by Christa Whitney on April 4, 2012 at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, MA. To learn more about the Wexler Oral History Project, visit: http://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/tell-your-story Keywords: Yiddish Book Center; National Yiddish Book Center; Wexler Oral History Project; nybc; ybc; Yiddish; Jewish culture; Eli Kwartler; Brooklyn; markets; Childhood; Yiddish language; Newspapers; Eastern Europe; Soviet Union; Politics and political movements
	Anna Gonshor 13Dec2011 Yiddish Book Center - Yiddish Book Center (Benno) Anna Fishman Gonshor, Professor of Yiddish language and culture at McGill University, was interviewed at the Montreal Jewish Public Library (JPL) on December 13, 2011. Anna was born in 1949 in Paris, France, and in 1950 her family immigrated to Montreal, where she grew up. Her mother, a Yiddish teacher, and her father, a factory worker, were both deeply committed to Yiddish culture and identity, and were actively involved in building Montreal's Jewish cultural institutions... Keywords: Yiddish scene; Yiddish teaching; Yiddish learning; Literature; Books; Career and Professional Life; Scholarship; Academia; Education; Canada; Anna Fishman Gonshor; Montreal; Yiddish Book Center; National Yiddish Book Center; Wexler Oral History Project; nybc; ybc; Yiddish; Jewish culture Downloads: 47
	Benjy Fox-Rosen 30December2012 Yiddish Book Center - Yiddish Book Center (Christa) Benjy Rox-Rosen was interviewed by Pauline Katz at KlezKamp in the Catskills on December 30, 2010. Benjy Fox-Rosen’s interview begins with an in-depth exploration of his family’s history. Benjy details how his paternal grandparents were from Poland, his grandfather from Lvov and his grandmother from Krakow; and, how his maternal grandparents were from Germany, his grandfather from Vienna and his grandmother from Dormant... Keywords: Yiddish Book Center; National Yiddish Book Center; Wexler Oral History Project; nybc; ybc; Yiddish; Jewish culture; Childhood; Jewish Identity; Yiddish language; Yiddish teaching; Yiddish learning; Yiddish revival and activism; Yiddish scene; Music; Klezmer; song; singing; Career and Professional Life; Education; Jewish education; Religion and ritual; Travel; Yiddish personalities; Transmission; United States; Eastern Europe; KlezKamp; Benjy Fox-Rosen; bass; vocalist; singer Downloads: 20
	Ramsay Leimenstoll - Yiddish Book Center (Allie) Ramsay Leimenstoll was interviewed by Emma Morgenstern on February 28, 2011 at the Yiddish Book Center. Ramsay begins her interview with a quick overview of her family’s history describing her mother as a 7th generation German and her father a 5th generation Scott. She considers herself American, and explains how she was raised in the Presbyterian church in Greensboro, North Carolina. Ramsay describes live in Greensboro rather different from what many perceive of as the South... Keywords: Yiddish Book Center; National Yiddish Book Center; Wexler Oral History Project; nybc; ybc; Yiddish; Jewish culture; Ramsay Leimenstoll; Western Europe; United States; Food and culinary traditions; France; freedom; religion; challah; Paris; Jewish Identity; Education; Spanish; Yiddish learning; Other languages; Education; Jewish studies; Favorite Yiddish word; Yiddish words; Paris; Geneva; chamsa Downloads: 22
	Sophia Holtz 25February2011 Yiddish Book Center - Yiddish Book Center (Allie) Sophia was a Jan Term student at the Yiddish Book Center in 2011. She is in her final year at Hampshire College. Sophia grew up in New York City, on the Upper West Side, with a brother and with wonderful parents. She liked being a city kid, and the independence that gave her. She went to an egalitarian, pluralist Jewish day school from pre-school until she graduated high school. She also went to synagogue, lived in a Jewish neighborhood, and generally was immersed in Jewish community for almost ... Keywords: Yiddish Book Center, Yiddish language, Yiddish learning, Jewish Identity, Childhood, United States, Education, Jewish education, Literature, Other languages, Hebrew, Klezmer, Music, New York, New York City, Upper West Side, Hampshire, Sophia Holtz, Yiddish Book Center, Hampshire College, JanTerm, National Yiddish Book Center, Wexler Oral History Project, nybc, ybc, Yiddish, Jewish culture Downloads: 10
	Peter Manseau on Yiddish and Writing - Yiddish Book Center Peter Manseau won the National Jewish Book Award for Songs for the Butcher’s Daughter, a semi-autobiographical and semi-historical novel about Yiddish literature and preservation. In this conversation with Josh Lambert, Manseau reflects on his time as an intern at the Yiddish Book Center and the obsession with Yiddish he can't seem to shake. Episode 33 July 10, 2012 Yiddish Book Center Amherst, Massachusetts Keywords: Yiddish Book Center; National Yiddish Book Center; Ybc; Nybc; Aaron Lansky; Yiddish; Jewish; Jewish Culture; Josh Lambert; Peter Manseau; Yiddish Book Center Audio; Amherst; Amherst Ma; Literature; Jewish Literature; Songs For The Butcher's Daughter; National Jewish Book Award Author; Steiner Summer Program; Academics; Religion; Internship Downloads: 134
	Boris Rubenstein 15May2011 Yiddish Book Center - Yiddish Book Center (Allie) Boris Rubenstein was interviewed by Christa Whitney on May 15, 2011 at the Yiddish Book Center. Boris Rubinstein, child and adolescent psychiatrist, grew up in Mexico City, Mexico. He explained that both his father and mother immigrated from Eastern Europe—Poland and Ukraine—to Mexico City. His father left Eastern Europe as a teenager, while his mother left as a young child, both following family members across the ocean... Keywords: Yiddish Book Center; National Yiddish Book Center; Wexler Oral History Project; nybc; ybc; Yiddish; Jewish culture; Advice; Family history; stories about ancestors; Childhood; Jewish Identity; Yiddish language; Press; Radio; Literature; Poetry; Career and Professional Life; Jewish professions; Holocaust; World War Two; Education; Religion and ritual; Family traditions; Jewish holidays; Israel; Zionism; Mexico; Boris Rubenstein Downloads: 37
	Anna Muench 19January2011 Yiddish Book Center - Yiddish Book Center (Allie) Anna Muench was interviewed by Christa Whitney on January 19, 2011 at the Yiddish Book Center. Anna Muench, a student in the 2011 January term Yiddish intensive class at the Yiddish Book Center, starts her interview with a brief overview of her family’s history. Both of her parents were interested in genealogy, which contributed to Anna’s strong grasp of her heritage. Anna spends the first portion of her interview describing her childhood growing up in Ipswich, Massachusetts, a town filled w... Keywords: Yiddish language, Yiddish learning, Advice, United States, Other languages, Other languages, Favorite Yiddish word, Yiddish words, English language, stories, anthropology, Russian, culture, Yiddish language, Yiddish learning, Advice, Yiddishland, Books, Anna Muench, Yiddish Book Center, National Yiddish Book Center, Wexler Oral History Project, nybc, ybc, Yiddish, Jewish culture Downloads: 19
	Lost Embrace - Yiddish Book Center Los Angeles Times and NPR film critic Kenneth Turan talks with us about Lost Embrace (Argentina's 2004 Academy Award entry/Best Foreign Film), the eccentric and sweet story of a young man working at a mall in the Jewish neighborhood of Buenos Aires. Episode 35 July 25, 2012 Yiddish Book Center Amherst, Massachusetts Keywords: Yiddish Book Center; National Yiddish Book Center; Aaron Lansky; Jewish; Jewish Culture; Yiddish Culture; Amherst MA; Amherst; Emma Morgenstern; Kenneth Turan; NPR; LA Times Film; Argentina; Buenos Aires; Once; Spanish; Lost Embrace; El Abrazo Partido; Daniel Burman; Daniel Hendler; Amol Iz Geven A Yid; Hebrew; Israel; Poland; Ybc; Nybc Downloads: 124
	Jeff Warschauer 28December2010 Yiddish Book Center - Yiddish Book Center (Christa) Jeff Warschauer was interviewed by Pauline Katz at KlezKamp in the Catskills on December 28, 2010. Jeff begins his interview with a careful outline of his family’s history. His father’s side came from Poland and Latvia; and, his maternal Latvian grandmother often spoke Yiddish. His mother’s side, with which he had a closer relationship, came from Germany. They were an orthodox family, but, as Jeff points out, in the German way which meant being fully observant, but very present in the curr... Keywords: Career and Professional Life; Education; Jewish education; Religion and ritual; Synagogue; shul; temple; Klezmer; Music; song; singing; United States; Yiddish learning; Yiddish language; Jewish Identity; Yiddish scene; Yiddish speaker; Immigration; Migration; Holocaust; Jewish professions; Yiddish Book Center; National Yiddish Book Center; Wexler Oral History Project; nybc; ybc; Yiddish; Jewish culture; Jeff Warschauer; KlezKamp Downloads: 21
	Chana Mlotek 15Aug2011 Yiddish Book Center - Yiddish Book Center (Benno) Chana Mlotek was interviewed on August 15, 2011 in New York City. To learn more about the Wexler Oral History Project, visit: www.yiddishbookcenter.org/tell-your-story Keywords: Yiddish language; Yiddish teaching; Yiddish revival and activism; Yiddish speaker; Yiddish scene; song; singing; Music; Theater; Literature; Books; Newspapers; Career and Professional Life; Jewish professions; Summer camp; Chana Mlotek; YIVO; Yiddish Book Center; National Yiddish Book Center; Wexler Oral History Project; nybc; ybc; Yiddish; Jewish culture Downloads: 107
	Aron Gonshor 15Dec2011 Yiddish Book Center - Yiddish Book Center (Benno) Aron Gonshor was interviewed at the Montreal Jewish Public Library on December 15, 2011. Aron is an oral and maxillofacial surgeon, and an actor with Montreal's Dora Wasserman Yiddish Theatre. He was born in Poland after the second world war, and his family immigrated to Montreal in 1948, after Canada's immigration policy became more liberal. In this interview, Aron describes growing up in Montreal's flourishing Yiddish-speaking community... Keywords: Yiddish Book Center; National Yiddish Book Center; Wexler Oral History Project; nybc; ybc; Yiddish; Jewish culture; Childhood; Jewish Identity; Yiddish language; Yiddish revival and activism; Yiddish scene; Immigration; Migration; Theater; Music; Literature; Books; Eastern Europe; Canada; Aron Gonshor; Montreal; Dora Wasserman Theater; Jewish Public Library Downloads: 78
	Alyson West 11July2011 Yiddish Book Center - Yiddish Book Center (Lily) Alyson West was interviewed by Hillary Ossip on July 11, 2011 at the Yiddish Book Center. Alyson West, a 2011 Steiner Summer Student, described growing up in Roanoke, Virginia. She noted that she hadnât met any Jewish people until she began studying at the University of Virginia, where she majored in English. In her final year of college, Alyson decided to take both Hebrew and Yiddish to acquire more credits in order to graduate... Keywords: Yiddish Book Center; National Yiddish Book Center; Wexler Oral History Project; nybc; ybc; Yiddish; Jewish culture; Advice; Favorite Yiddish word; Yiddish words; Childhood; Yiddish language; Yiddish learning; Other languages; Literature; Scholarship; Academia; Education; United States; Yiddish Book Center; Rural; Alyson West; Roanoke; Virginia; University of Virginia; 1990s; 2000s Downloads: 29
	Malca Sussman Hubner 15December2011 Yiddish Book Center - Yiddish Book Center (Lily) Malca Sussman Hubner was interviewed by Christa Whitney on December 15, 2011 in Montreal. To learn more about the Wexler Oral History Project, visit: http://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/tell-your-story Keywords: Yiddish Book Center; National Yiddish Book Center; Wexler Oral History Project; nybc; ybc; Yiddish; Jewish culture; Childhood; Yiddish language; Immigration; Migration; Theater; Music; Literature; Books; Jewish holidays; Canada; Family history; stories about ancestors; Eastern Europe; Pesakh; Passover; Transmission; Advice; Malca Sussman Hubner; Jewish Public Library; recordings; Montreal; Ukraine; Waverly; Fairmount; Dora Wasserman; Sholem Aleichem Downloads: 15
	Yehudi Wyner 14June2011 Yiddish Book Center - Yiddish Book Center (Emily) Yehudi Wyner was interviewed by Hankus Netsky on June 14, 2011 in Medford, MA. To learn more about the Wexler Oral History Project, visit: http://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/tell-your-story Keywords: Family history; stories about ancestors; Yiddish language; Immigration; Migration; song; singing; Music; Coming back to Yiddish; Eastern Europe; Poetry; music composition; grandparents; Leo Low; Sidor Belarsky; Robert Russell Bennett; Ada Louise Huxtable; Lazar Weiner; World's Fair; yiddishist; hebreist; Bach Aria Group; Bach; Bianca Sauler; Haim Zalman Dimitrovsky; Yiddish Book Center; National Yiddish Book Center; Wexler Oral History Project; nybc; ybc; Yiddish; Jewish culture Downloads: 3
	Jack Apfelbaum 2December2011 Yiddish Book Center - Yiddish Book Center (Emily) Jack Apfelbaum was interviewed by Sandra Rubin on December 2, 2011 at the Yiddish Book Center. To learn more about the Wexler Oral History Project, visit: http://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/tell-your-story Keywords: Family history and stories re. ancestors; Childhood; Jewish Identity; Immigration; Migration; and place; Career and Professional Life; Education; Scholarship; Transmission (intergenerational; cultural; social... parenting); Travel; United States; Western Europe; Jack Apfelbaum; Germany; Hamburg; India; Egypt; Santa Fe; Engineer; Engineering; Yiddish Book Center; National Yiddish Book Center; Wexler Oral History Project; nybc; ybc; Yiddish; Jewish culture
	Eva Apfelbaum 2December2011 Yiddish Book Center - Yiddish Book Center (Emily) Eva Apfelbaum was interviewed on December 2, 2011 by Sara Israel at the Yiddish Book Center. To learn more about the Wexler Oral History Project, visit: http://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/tell-your-story Keywords: Advice; Favorite Yiddish word; Family history and stories re. ancestors; Childhood; Jewish Identity; Immigration; Migration; and place; Visual Arts; Holocaust; Education; Family traditions; Western Europe; United States; Summer camp; Transmission (intergenerational; cultural; social... parenting); Anti-Semitism; Urban; Travel; Immigration; Migration; Eva Apfelbaum; France; Germany; Environment; India; Yiddish Book Center; National Yiddish Book Center; Wexler Oral History Project; nybc; ybc; Yiddish; Jewish culture
	Efim Chorny 23August2011 Yiddish Book Center - Yiddish Book Center (Allie) Efim Chorny begins his interview detailing his family heritage. His mother and her family were from Moldova and his father’s family were from Czechoslovakia. Efim grew up in Kishinev. As a child, Efim knew that his parents and grandparents spoke Yiddish, but living in the Soviet Union, he spoke mostly Russian. The first portion of the interview goes over in detail what it meant to be Jewish in Soviet Russia, as Efim describes the ways his grandparents and parents tried to observe holidays... Keywords: Family history and stories re. ancestors; Childhood; Jewish Identity; Yiddish language (feelings of/about; meaning; descriptions of); Yiddish teaching; Yiddish learning; Yiddish revival and activism; Coming back to Yiddish; Music; Career and Professional Life; World War Two; Education; Religion and ritual; Family traditions; Eastern Europe; Soviet Union; Transmission (intergenerational; cultural; social... parenting); Roots/heritage; Rural; Moldova; communism; socialism; KlezKanada; Yiddish Book Center; National Yiddish Book Center; Wexler Oral History Project; nybc; ybc; Yiddish; Jewish culture Downloads: 48
	Daniel Kahn 24August2011 Yiddish Book Center - Yiddish Book Center (Allie) Daniel Kahn grew up in the suburbs of Detroit, Michigan. Daniel's mother was born in Detroit, Michigan, and his father was born in Akron, Ohio. Daniel's four grandparents lived in many different hubs across the nation including the Lower East Side, Wisconsin, and Ohio. Though a self proclaimed American, Daniel reflects on his mother's family's Galician past, and how his father's family left Austria-Hungary for England before immigrating to the United States... Keywords: Detroit; New Orleans; Berlin; Moscow; Krakow; Bund; Union organizing; Reform; German; Psoy Kordenko; Advice; Childhood; Jewish Identity; Yiddish language (feelings of/about; meaning; descriptions of); Yiddish learning; Immigration; Migration; and place; Theater; Music; Poetry; Career and Professional Life; Zionism; Eastern Europe; Canada; United States; Politics and political movements; Transmission (intergenerational; cultural; social... parenting); Roots/heritage; Jewish community (descriptions of place and social dynamics in a particular time); Travel; Yiddish Book Center; National Yiddish Book Center; Wexler Oral History Project; nybc; ybc; Yiddish; Jewish Downloads: 88
	Michael Katz 24July2011 Yiddish Book Center - Yiddish Book Center (Allie) Michael Katz was interviewed by Emma Morgenstern on July 24, 2011 at the Yiddish Book Center. He is the father of former fellow, Pauline Katz. Michael Katz’s interview begins with a detailed account of his family’s long standing Jewish progressive cultural identification. Michael explains that he is (at least) a third generation Jew who was deeply invested in Yiddish culture and language—what he calls Yiddishkeit... Keywords: Mike Katz; Michael Katz; Wexler Oral History Project; Coming back to Yiddish; Music; Transmission; song; singing; Yiddish language; United States; Politics and political movements; Religion and ritual; Bar Mitzvah; Vietnam War; Yiddish language (feelings of/about; meaning; descriptions of); Yiddish revival and activism; Yiddish culture: Music; Yiddish scene (U.S.); nybc; ybc; Yiddish Book Center; National Yiddish Book Center; Yiddish; Jewish; Jewish culture; Yiddish culture Downloads: 19
	Anna Stusser 18July2011 Yiddish Book Center - Yiddish Book Center (Yoshi) Anna Stusser was interviewed by Emma Morgenstern on July 18, 2011 at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, MA. To learn more about the Wexler Oral History Project, visit: http://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/tell-your-story Keywords: Yiddish Book Center; National Yiddish Book Center; Wexler Oral History Project; nybc; ybc; Yiddish; Jewish culture; Anna Stusser; Steiner Summer Program; Germany; German; Washington; Olympia WA; Bat Mitzvah; I.B. Singer; Clark University; Jewish Identity; Childhood; Yiddish language; Yiddish learning; Yiddish revival and activism; Books; Literature; Scholarship; Academia; Holocaust; World War Two; Education; United States; Yiddish Book Center; Western Europe; Family history; stories about ancestors; Summer camp; Travel; Advice; Favorite Yiddish word; Yiddish words; Other languages Downloads: 8
	Leo Weitzman 13July2011 Yiddish Book Center - Yiddish Book Center (Yoshi) Leo Weitzman was interviewed by Christa Whitney on July 13, 2011 at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, MA. To learn more about the Wexler Oral History Project, visit: http://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/tell-your-story Keywords: Leo Weitzman; Germany; New York City; NYC; DP Camps; Displaced Persons Camps; Siberia; Poland; Warsaw; Munich; Warsaw Jewish Choir; 1950s; Western Europe; United States; Immigration; Migration; Childhood; Family history; stories about ancestors; Eastern Europe; Holocaust; Yiddish speaker; World War Two; Newspapers; Music; Theater; song; singing; Purim; Yiddish language; Other languages; Yiddish Book Center; National Yiddish Book Center; Wexler Oral History Project; nybc; ybc; Yiddish; Jewish culture Downloads: 6
	Paul Charette 1May2012 Yiddish Book Center - Yiddish Book Center (Christa) Paul Charette was interviewed by Allie Brudney on May 1, 2012 at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, MA. To learn more about the Wexler Oral History Project, visit: http://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/tell-your-story Keywords: Advice; Family history; stories about ancestors; Childhood; Jewish Identity; Career and Professional Life; Education; Religion and ritual; Family traditions; Jewish holidays; Israel; United States; Transmission; Roots/heritage; Jewish community; Paul Charette; Southampton; Amherst; Holyoke; Great Barrington; MA; Massachusetts; TX; Texas; Bloomington; IN; Indiana; Jewish Community of Amherst; JCA; Sons of Zion; 2000s; Orthodoz; Reconstructionist; Conservative; Catholic; Protestant; Yiddish Book Center; National Yiddish Book Center; Wexler Oral History Project; nybc; ybc; Yiddish; Jewish culture
	Ron Finegold 14Dec2011 Yiddish Book Center - Yiddish Book Center (Lily) Ron Finegold was interviewed by Christa Whitney on December 14, 2011 in Montreal, Canada. To learn more about the Wexler Oral History Project, visit: http://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/tell-your-story Keywords: Advice; Family history and stories re. ancestors; Childhood; Jewish Identity; Yiddish learning; Other Jewish languages; Literature; Career and Professional Life; Education; Religion and ritual; Jewish holidays; Canada; Transmission (intergenerational; cultural; social... parenting); Roots/heritage; Jewish community (descriptions of place and social dynamics in a particular time); Family history; stories about ancestors; Hebrew; Other languages; Jewish community; Jewish International Aid Society; Montreal Jewish Public Library; Yiddish Book Center; National Yiddish Book Center; Wexler Oral History Project; nybc; ybc; Yiddish; Jewish culture Downloads: 28
	Sherrie Poplack 14December2011 Yiddish Book Center - Yiddish Book Center (Lily) Sherrie Poplack was interviewed by Sara Israel on December 14, 2011 in Montreal, Canada. To learn more about the Wexler Oral History Project, visit: http://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/tell-your-story Keywords: Yiddish Book Center; National Yiddish Book Center; Wexler Oral History Project; nybc; ybc; Yiddish; Jewish culture; Childhood; Jewish Identity; Career and Professional Life; Jewish professions; Jewish holidays; Family traditions; Israel; Travel; Canada; Pesakh; Passover; Politics and political movements; Film; Other languages; Advice; Favorite Yiddish word; Yiddish words; Sherrie Poplack; Montreal; 1960s; 1970s; B'nai Brith Girls; Baron de Hirsch; Jewish General Hospital; Quebec; pig; pork Downloads: 14
	Helen Yelen 8July2011 Yiddish Book Center - Yiddish Book Center (Allie) Helen is Lesley (the oral historian's) great-aunt. She is 94 years old. She was born in 1917 in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Her mother was quite sick throughout most of Helen's life; she had tuberculosis and Helen and her siblings spent some time living with their grandfathers and other relatives. This was how Helen learned to understand Yiddish. Her parents didn't speak it at home, but her grandfathers and other relatives did... Keywords: Helen Yelen; Williamsburg; Brooklyn; Brownsville; Spring Valley; Bellerose; Queens; Niagara Falls; Toronto; Israel; Ethel Rosenberg; B'nai Brith; Anti-Defamation League; United Jewish Appeal; Brooklyn Museum; Davenport Theater; Ambassador Movie Theater; The Chocolate Shop; E. J. Korvette; American league Against War and Fascism; Orthodox; Family history and stories re. ancestors; Childhood; Jewish Identity; Yiddish language; Music; Career and Professional Life; Religion and ritual; Family traditions; Jewish holidays; Israel; United States; Politics and political movements; Food and culinary traditions; Transmission; Jewish community; Urban; Yiddish Book Center; National Yiddish Book Center; Wexler Oral History Project; nybc; ybc; Yiddish; Jewish culture Downloads: 36
	Michael Winograd 25August2011 Yiddish Book Center - Yiddish Book Center (Allie) Michael Winograd was interviewed by Pauline Katz on August 25, 2011 at KlezKanada. Michael begins his interview by briefly describing his family as half Russian and half Polish. Michael explains that his family wanted to become American, and when they arrived in the United States in the late nineteenth century they did not speak very much about their life in Europe. It wasn’t until Michael’s paternal great uncle moved to Brooklyn that he received a number of photographs that represented a fa... Keywords: Michael Winograd; Yiddish Book Center; National Yiddish Book Center; Wexler Oral History Project; nybc; ybc; Yiddish; Jewish culture; Family history and stories re. ancestors; United States; Eastern Europe; Childhood; Jewish Identity; Yiddish language (feelings of/about; meaning; descriptions of); Music; Poetry; Career and Professional Life; Education; Western Europe; Yiddish revival and activism; Long Island; Camp Ramah; Mickey Katz; Irving Fields; Adrienne cooper; Daniel Kahn; Socalled; KlezKamp; Jenny Romaine; Sid Beckerman; Michael Winograd Trio; Patrick Farrell; Benjy Fox-Rosen; New England Conservatory; Hankus Netsky; KlezKanada; Matt Darriau; Klezmatics; Merlin Shepherd; Budowitz; Brooklyn; Yiddish Princess; Sarah Gordon; heavy metal Downloads: 37
	Robert Booth 21July2011 Yiddish Book Center - Yiddish Book Center (Lily) Robert Booth was interviewed by David Schlitt on July 21, 2011 at the Yiddish Book Center. To learn more about the Wexler Oral History Project, visit: http://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/tell-your-story Keywords: Yiddish Book Center; National Yiddish Book Center; Wexler Oral History Project; nybc; ybc; Yiddish; Jewish culture; Family history; stories about ancestors; Eastern Europe; Yiddish language; shabbat; shabbes; sabbath; United States; Summer camp; Youth group; Education; Love/Relationships; Career and Professional Life; Western Europe; Visual Arts; Travel; Jewish Identity; Holocaust; Rosh Hashanah; Advice; Religion and ritual; Politics and political movements; Robert Booth; Great Depression; 1930s; New York City; NYC; Florida; St. Louis; Prague; NFTY; North American Federation of Temple Youth; Alekh Shindler; 1970s; Netherlands; Holland; Sculptor; Sculpture; Latvia; 1990s; New Hampshire; George McGovern; Chicago; 1970s; Boston; New Zealand; Indianapolis; Tucson; Arizona; Rabbi Awraham Soetendorp Downloads: 13
	Lois Graber 28April2011 Yiddish Book Center - Yiddish Book Center (Allie) Lois Graber, proud grandmother of 6, spoke about the great importance of transmission of Judaism to her children and grandchildren. She detailed her family background as well as that of her husband, a Holocaust survivor. Lois fondly recalled many stories of her family, including her motherâs familyâs involvement with the Yiddish theater in the Bronx. She especially lights up when recounting tales about her in-laws speaking Yiddish, and her mother in law calling her a treasure... Keywords: Advice; Family history and stories re. ancestors; Childhood; Jewish Identity; Yiddish language (feelings of/about; meaning; descriptions of); Immigration; Migration; and place; Other Jewish languages; Theater; Holocaust; Religion and ritual; Family traditions; Jewish holidays; Israel; Zionism; Soviet Union; United States; Transmission (intergenerational; cultural; social... parenting); Roots/heritage; Anti-Semitism; children/grandchildren of (Yiddish personalities); Travel; Jewish community (descriptions of place and social dynamics in a particular time); Music; Sharon; MA; Bronx; NY; Hadassah; 1950s; 1980s; Young Men's Hebrew Association (YMHA); Young Women's Hebrew Association (YWHA); Russia; Catskills; Dudu Fisher; Yiddish Book Center; National Yiddish Book Center; Wexler Oral History Project; nybc; ybc; Yiddish; Jewish culture Downloads: 33
	Charles Corfield 5july2011 Yiddish Book Center - Yiddish Book Center (Christa) Charles Corfield begins his interview with a briefing on his limited knowledge of his family's lineage. With two parents from Wales, Charles remembers his life in the newly developed, liberal democratic, and diverse town of Win Garden City in the United Kingdom. His life growing up was very secular, and he remembers the tolerance of his community. He reminisces about how the town's shul was built next to the Friend's meeting house, as one of many examples of his town's common ongoings... Keywords: Yiddish Book Center; National Yiddish Book Center; Wexler Oral History Project; nybc; ybc; Yiddish; Jewish culture; Advice; Favorite Yiddish word; Yiddish words; Childhood; Jewish Identity; Yiddish language; Yiddish learning; Yiddish revival and activism; Coming back to Yiddish; Post-vernacular uses of Yiddish; Yiddish speaker; Music; Klezmer; song; singing; Literature; Books; Newspapers; Career and Professional Life; Education; Religion and ritual; Synagogue; shul; temple; shabbat; shabbes; sabbath; Western Europe; United States; Roots/heritage; Jewish community; Assimilation; Travel; Forverts; Yiddish Daily Forward; ultramarathon; runner; running; technology; England; Cambridge Downloads: 35
	Paul Kaye 28July2011 Yiddish Book Center - Yiddish Book Center (Lily) Paul Kaye was interviewed by Hillary Ossip on July 28, 2011 at the Yiddish Book Center. To learn more about the Wexler Oral History Project, visit: http://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/tell-your-story Keywords: Yiddish Book Center; National Yiddish Book Center; Wexler Oral History Project; nybc; ybc; Yiddish; Jewish culture; United States; World War Two; Immigration; Migration; Yiddish language; Yiddish speaker; Jewish education; Religion and ritual; Jewish Identity; Childhood; Education; Transmission; Urban; Israel; Food and culinary traditions; Yiddish Book Center; Favorite Yiddish word; Yiddish words; Family history; stories about ancestors; Hebrew; Career and Professional Life; Paul Kaye; New York City; Navy; 1940s; 1990s; Long Island; Queens NY; Temple Hillel Long Island; Haganah; Bronx; Bar Mitzvah; Hatikvah (ship); Cyprus; UJA Federation; American Veterans of Israel Downloads: 17